7:42 PM
Tonight we have three shows at the Loony Bin in Little Rock: at 7, 9 and 11. After the third show I plan on driving straight home to St Louis (which is why I brought my lappy along to the club. I didn't want to wait to blog tomorrow and I didn't want to leave it in the cold in my car). Right now, Mark Klein is on stage in front of a really big crowd. My set went well; I was told to do 7 minutes and I looked at my stop watch when I got off (after bringing up Brandon) and it read 7:23. I actually planned out almost exactly which jokes I was going to do before I got on stage. My smoking joke has 2 parts, and I decided to just to do the first half. I naturally wanted to do the "more fun when drinking" bit and it went really well. Less than half the audience laughed at my "religious differences" joke; which sucked; and they didn't really appreciate my motorcycle story either. I think the longer of a set I get, the more I can prepare an audience for that joke. I heard Steve talking on the phone in the box office and he said the 9 o'clock show was sold out. I can't wait for that one.
9:21 PM
During the second show, I forgot to start my stop-watch; so I had to "eye-ball" how much material I needed to do and tried to close on my "religious differences" joke. it didn't get the big hit I was hoping for, so I jumped straight to my email dump story. The "more fun when drinking" bit got a big "woo" during the "butt-tag" part from some drunk college-looking guys. Any my gay-bar story got a really good response. I'm thinking that I could close on that during shorter sets. Of course that would mean I should need to do my drinking material AFTER my bad-with-women material. I might try that next show, though if it doesn't work, I can't think of any bits I can do after that to close on.
11:22 PM
Brandon's on stage right now; before the show I asked if I he would mind doing twenty-five so that could do around ten. He said he wouldn't mind, and I hope he didn't take offense to my asking. When I got on stage, the audio from the funny video montage was still running; I probably should have done a stupid little dance to the music that was playing (Fantastic Voyage by Lakeside). I would like to say the set went great; but the crowd was a little stiff with me. They didn't laugh at a couple of jokes (especially my email joke, which I tried to close on); so I closed on "religious differences", which didn't get the big closing round of applause I wanted.
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